is there any city in the united states that you want. long as you want to get to. make money. it's one of the. most of the votes counted benjamin netanyahu looks at birth record fifth term with israeli prime minister mr muniz have already expressed concern that will lead to other rights violations in the occupied west bank. the british prime minister readies her plea for another extension to break states in brussels as the clock takes down towards friday's no deal deadline. and war stories slams for rewriting history as it continues to reject russia's involvement in a memorial project at a former nazi death camp in poland. a

very warm welcome you are watching r.t. international with me nicky airing our top story with almost all the ballots counted israel's benjamin netanyahu looks set to win a record fifth term as the country's prime minister the final result is not yet in though and the incumbent and right wing leader will still have to form a coalition alliance despite that's netanyahu has declared himself victor. oh. this is a night of tremendous victory i was very moved that the nation of israel once again and trusted me for the fifth time already tonight i have started talks with the heads of the right wing parties are natural partners i intend to be the prime minister of all israeli citizens right or left jews and non jews alike all israeli citizens it really would need something outrageous to happen for him not to be able

to form this coalition he's likely to get sixty five seats out of a parliament comprising of one hundred twenty so that gives him a better majority than he had in the previous parliament where he stood with sixty one this will mean that his back will be less against the war he'll be able to perhaps move a little more clearly and not be choked by those in his coalition who are putting demands on him that he perhaps doesn't want to go to the election is largely seen as a kind of referendum on netanyahu and he sort of me is perceiving the result which is the strongest showing that his likud party has ever achieved as a nod that he's in the right direction that israelis appreciate his efforts israelis wanting to continue in the premiership he's already been put in a coalition together for the last few weeks some of the behind the scenes some of it in front of the scenes he courted a lot of controversy for reaching out to a very far right racist group at the same time however it could take at least a month if not longer for him to solidify his coalition it is important though to mention that there was a very strong showing from his main rival the former israeli defense forces chief

benny gantz who for the first time has come forward with a political party the blue and white party now they are neck and neck with him in the polls but they are likely to form as major a coalition as netanyahu but what this does mean for the prime minister is that he'll have a more united opposition he won't perhaps be able to act so freely he also needs to face the american president donald trump's deal of the century there trump is likely to oss control concessions and of course don't forget the corruption charges that night on. who faces this is new territory for israel what will happen when in fact he is indicted if he is indicted when those charges come forward that could take a long time but at the same time it will be a headache over the head of the prime minister the arab community here in israel which numbers around twenty percent of the population is internally divided and also at the same time there's a sense of despondency in terms of how arab israelis view the potential for elections to really change their fate when i travel election polls yesterday

particularly in arab neighborhoods are you having people who are actually turning out and they say that they feel that he needs to be some kind of change that there was a call by many arab leaders for arab citizens to boycott the elections it's very fluid at this stage we do expect though that the polls that the exit polls that we're looking at now really are not going to change regardless of when those final results come in. well if it's going to cross live to israel based journalist jill donna miller mr miller thank you for joining us on the program we appreciate it. assuming netanyahu does secure a fifth term was sort of policies can we expect from him. well his victory is really all but assured we can expect that he will likely not move very much when it comes to the peace process with the palestinians even though president trump just a short while ago said that he thinks peace has a better chance when the office we do know that the palestinians have been

boycotting the trump administration they will they will respond to that that ultimate what the white house calls the ultimate to deal with rejection they've already declared it kind of dead on arrival so we can expect not to move. very much forward on that front i think one of the big questions today is whether. promise in just the days before this election to annex jewish settlements in the west bank we need to watch whether that was really just a ploy to get more votes from his right wing base in which case it seems he definitely succeeded or whether he really truly intends on pursuing that policy in one interview he said that he will look to president trump to help him make that policy of an explosion happen it is

a deeply problematic policy for many reasons of course the major one given that the palestinians want the west bank for their future state and jewish settlements would certainly put a wrench in that if not make it impossible absolutely international opinion is already increasingly turning against israel of race treatment of the palestinians so if that makes they shouldn't does go ahead what the consequences be do you think . well i think it would more or less stamp out any last hope for a peace process between israelis and palestinians netanyahu said that he would not just an x. the big jewish settlement blocks and there are a few of them that will be included in any peace deal at the end of this lengthy process if we ever get there but tell you no said he's going to even he's even going to annex every single isolated settlement as well and not uproot one jewish

settler so this in essence would be the end really the de facto end of a two state solution because simply the palestinians wouldn't have first of all much land left for their hope for a future state and they would simply you know i think maybe even it would cause mass protests and riots across the west bank to what extent do you feel that netanyahu is feeling emboldened by the support he's receiving from donald trump. i mean there's really no question that president trump has bolstered netanyahu through his time in office these last couple of years and then certainly helped him win this election not only with the previous decisions of moving the u.s. embassy to jerusalem the decision to recognize jerusalem as the capital of israel

pulling the u.s. out of the iran nuclear deal and then just a week before this election recognizing israel sovereignty over the golan heights i mean i spent much of this time before the election following the prime minister and he was stomping on all of those achievements taking credit for them as diplomatic wins that he was able to get from the american president so he certainly has been aided by president trump and president trump has emboldened him in in many ways first also in the in the sense that he is not moving so quickly towards a peace process and then netanyahu like the president was involved in a kind of corruption scandal and. seemed to take cues from the president as well calling those investigations against him a witch hunt and the voters by and large seem to have on the right seem to believe

in attorney alan said of abandoning him he actually rallied more voters to him the likud picking up five seats today in these election results it was on a miller is well based journalist thank you for joining us on our tape we appreciate your time. thanks. after a final quizzing in parliament britain's prime minister is off to meet walk could be an even tougher crowd in brussels to resign may's going there for an emergency summit to plead for a break sit extension until june thirtieth the u.k.'s divorce from the european union is at this point for friday piece of the breaks down the latest breaks it twists and turns. well as theresa may heads there to brussels this summit she's going to be asking for an extension we understand until the thirtieth of june the problem with that is not a lot of people in europe are interested in those type of short term extensions before heading to this summit on tuesday she was here in berlin meeting with

chancellor angela merkel she also went over to paris and met with president macron we can only presume she was putting forward another type of argument to them to try and get them on side with her there was no word out of either meeting of what's being discussed but what i can tell you is this the idea of an extension until the thirtieth of june doesn't go down well with many in the european union all experience so far as well as a deep divisions within the house of commons give us a little reason to believe that the ratification process can be completed by the end of june in reality granting such an extension would increase the risk of a rolling series of short extensions and emergency summit creating a new clue for diplomats i've been speaking to been saying that they want to have an extension of let's say a year which would give the opportunity for say the united kingdom to hold a general election also potentially a second referendum and it's the one year extension it's also being floated really

by donald to escape the e.u. council president now he's been talking about what's being called a flex tension which always have a lovely name for the state of things in europe it's not a piece of fitness equipment it's a one year extension of article fifty which if the united kingdom could come to terms with the deal it's on the table and they could agree to that well they agree to that at any time during it they break off the union and the u.k. and the e.u. go their separate ways now it is highly likely that theresa may will come away from this summit on wednesday with an extension of some sort but it's not absolutely guaranteed in fact we've heard some comments from emanuel macron the french president. over the last ten days or so saying that britain is really going to have to bring something to the table if it wants an extension but really this meeting on wednesday in brussels this is now or never time if it comes to britain getting any further extensions to the break that deadline as it stands the u.k.

set to leaf on friday afternoon friday evening and really it is getting to that point whereby many of the european leaders senior figures within those countries they're all getting very sick of breaks that there's a whole load of other issues that really need their attention evil we can perpetually live with an everlasting brigs it some point there has to be an exit so i think that the british authorities the british parliament really need to realise that the european union is not going to be able to constantly exhaust itself on the vagaries of british domestic policy. so far absolutely nothing has changed but there isn't an endless readiness to keep talking about delays too long as there is no substantial progress on the british side we don't really know what the outcome is going to be but it will end up ultimately being one of three it would seem to reason he's granted an extension in which he's allowed to able to in britain which britain is able to come up with a solution in the exit in an orderly fashion or article fifty itself is called off

essential cancelling breaks it which comes with all of its own problems or the no deal breaks it which despite legislation it went through the house of commons just this week it was signed off late at night by the queen on monday evening is still a possibility now that's the worst case scenario for everybody the european side don't want us the british side don't want us and it's the thing that everybody is really trying to avoid. a diplomatic dispute is brewing over the construction of a memorial museum to former nazi death camp in poland was the house rejected several requests when russia to take part in the project eliciting an angry response from moscow medina cardinal brings us more. some a bore was a nazi run killing center and an intense secret very few survived to average talent that scream course.

another unit arrived once they were already undressed they apparently understood where they were being taken naked and all in fear they ran away but where could they run everyone rushed to the bar to our fences and there they were met with the fire of machine guns and rifles many people died from the bullets the rest were driven into the gas chambers the fires were burning into late at night that's all flames illuminated the evening black sky with its terrifying lights the whole camp and the surrounding territory.

like thunder the screams of people rode over the death camp six hundred people exhausted yearning for freedom rushed forward shouting here a in this single impulse the jews of russia are in poland the netherlands and from the czech it's a vacuum in germany united it was only then that the tower gods realized that something was wrong in the camp and opened fire. unlike auschwitz there is nothing left of sabi bore the extermination camp was destroyed by the nazis after the uprising and trees planted to conceal evidence it ever existed but there is concerned that key part. if as history are now being over look at the group this is a mutha for the whole of europe through in the so people come. russians dutch french and also people from other countries and that's what you know this pain the

loss of people who were tortured there and died so that we never repeated the polish government started construction plans back in two thousand and fourteen for a new visitor center at the site of the former death camp russia says that it was unfairly sidelines and the design of the museum especially as a soffit soldier was behind the hear royd group fault and escape for sabi war the committee behind the project includes representatives from slovakia the netherlands poland and israel as the construction of the museum moved forward paul and opened the betting for those who wanted to take part in setting up the museum interior but again all three obligations by russian museums all private entities were not approved by war sell polish russian relations are complicated and certainly when it comes to world war two they were complicated so i think the poles rather take control themselves of the narrative they're afraid of the russian narrative and they also don't want to give russia too much credit for liberating poland you can

use history as a weapon and the poles haven't weaponize in history as a as many people have been doing some may call it historical amnesia some like paul ince ministry of culture and national heritage say it's a logical decision the international steering committee made a anatomist decision about continuing cooperation between its current members who have already worked together for ten years in order to smoothly complete advance works on the new moon morial site the cultural standoff aside as high time average one as remembered for their suffering and bravery let me remind you of something where seventy thousand aversive of the liberation of the auschwitz death camp. after his broken house death camp was observed in poland lattimer putin was not invited and given the fact that this was liberated by the red army i mean this is quite quite outrageous i would say so what we're seeing now is

a continuation of this policy which is trying to. keep the russians out of participating in any. effort to present the history of sobibor and the suffering of the of the inmates there in the horrible mass murders that took place there. well were these stories coming up after the break. you know world of big partisan movies a lot and conspiracy it's time to wake up to dig deeper to hit the stories that made stream media refuses to tell more than ever we need to be smarter we need to stop slamming the door on the shouting past each other it's time for critical thinking it's time to fight for the middle for the truth the time is now we're

watching closely watching the hawks. what politicians do something. they put themselves on the line they get accepted or rejected. so when you want to be president. or some want to listen. to the right to be crooks it's like the three of the more people. interested always in the why. aren't they said. welcome back well two more presidential hopefuls have joined the long list of

democratic contenders to unseat president donald trump in twenty twenty and even after a lengthy investigation into the alleged russian meddling in the twenty six thousand election failed to prove collusion some of the candidates again using it in their campaigns but it's caleb will promote it's not resonating with the american voters . as if the democratic presidential primary of two thousand and twenty wasn't already crowded enough we now have two more candidates throwing their hats into the ring both tim ryan and eric small will say that their campaigns will give special attention to one particular issue russia you know who comes on the our social media the russians. ok i want you to hear this the russians they come into our social media and they spin things to get us into these divided camps and most importantly the russians are going to do this again and the twenty twenty you know action even suggest he's a russian agent saying he's betrayed our country any concern he took it too far now

he acts on russia's behalf to all russia has been the obsession of many democrats sense trumps victory in two thousand and sixteen however there have been many voices calling on the russia haters to cool it down a little bit and the democratic party leadership seems to agree somewhat but i'm sure to the republicans hold. the focus here for investigations on health care or. remember if you have just a little. bit of this is the press on these issues so is nancy pelosi also a russian spy is she in on the vast conspiracy involving trump steve bannon puton boris and natasha take over the whole the zero to the us of a just good marriage in that only people in town like new york bought a big would leave one ways custard pies i can't use that particular bedding base both those of u.n.

building well know most likely she's just seen the poll results american voters were polled on what they cared about the most russia or health care eighty percent said health care only eight percent said russia and c.n.n. polled its audience and it turns out that only thirteen percent say that they will be impacted in their decision in two thousand and twenty by bob mahler's report so we decided to go ask new yorkers how they feel we decided to give them five issues health care economy climate change gun control and the russia investigation now we're going to have them go rank them in order of importance most important is health care. climate change and. gun control. and. the other wonderful russian the staycation economy the economy and then russia and the solution health care the second most gun control. will the other things with our climate change commie climate change is cutting me is fourth. or

should just gross investigation see climate change. gun control economy. than it was due to which there is there are sure to see a shows your own health care. bills than literature investigations so perhaps talking about moscow gold and kremlin intrigue is just a force of habit after all the cold war started way back in one thousand nine hundred forty six however if the democratic party wants to win elections perhaps they should search for a more effective message. archie new york with more and more candidates vying for a shot of the twenty twenty presidential election democrats are looking for ways to oust the republicans from the white house one of the controversial issues being put forward is a bill on reparations for african-americans for the enslavement of the ancestors is however a recent poll suggests only twenty one percent of voters would actually supports

the move if adopted it would entail an official acknowledgment of the legacy of american slavery and compensation payments to those still affected by discrimination as a result we have to recognize that everybody did not start out on an equal footing in this country and in particular black people have not. and so we have got to recognize that and do something about that and give folks a lift up i believe it's time to start the national full blown conversation about reparations so that we can as a nation do what's right and begin to heal there are massive disparities that must be addressed so we're going to do everything we can to put resources into distressed communities and improve lives for those people who have been hurt from the legacy of slavery and service have commentaries anthony brown logan attorney and author reese everson for their respective corners on the reparations bill. you

could have identified the former slave master and a former slave right at the moment but we're now winds are at fifty years past a particular point in time who is going to pay people who did not have slaves nobody i left a day in twenty nineteen was a slave back then so what do we gain pay for who is going to pay we're right again pay it's no more than a campaign promise from democratic hopefuls trying to get some kind of attention now you're ok with the l. o. s. and that's the most ridiculous thing i've ever heard they provide economic restitution to those people now if i came into your house mr a.b.l. and i sell a thousand dollars from you and then i die or if i sell a million dollars from you and then i die would you say oh well reasoned guy so that money doesn't matter anymore no he would go talk to my children children are still living off the benefits of that million dollars just because somebody has grand days dose of it doesn't mean i'm responsible for it if somebody is granddad

was so you know a killer and then they found out one hundred years later you go after the kids and say ok you get to go to jail now or you get to pay back some money because of what your grandfather d. and makes no since you know who did it you should have been able to catch him why they were alive punish him why they were alive we want to focus on is the economic harm that was done to black people if we really break down with slavery was people were brought from across the water to work and that was free labor so what we have is here a racial years hundreds of years of systematic distant discrimination and shutting out of x. economic access the black people and that has to be repaid if we're going to blame the government you a say you don't know everybody is a laugh right even know nobody is allowed right now it's only nineteen that was a laugh bathing and to and then a thing about it is who's going to pay you're talking about a government the government is funded by the people that means to me that means you will pay for it so how does it make any sense like i say it would have been more

let me present. and you are certainly his slave when were parades in is would have been do which is at the end to slavery now right now it makes no sense to so argue me it displays no logic here america's never even study the effects of slavery on black people they've never sat down and said we know that as the government we sanction with this this experience but we don't even know how far that experience reaches because no one's ever study it how much do we owe black people no one's ever studied and why because the government has literally buried it had it paid out everybody else and turned it back on the black people in america who hate anyone i do too long to just striving to be a dad and their handy three hundred and one example either out in tears. they paid money when whether in the hundred in his later years. that's irrelevant the point is the how much you are going to get you didn't marry too many years to go to your spouse that was a year so i'm going to take you to narrative it won't point do we say we're past

lavery we're. now because the buck stops here hopefully my generation will stand up and say that the buck stops here so we don't have to go on with this any longer. well back with more in thirty minute. breaks it comes down. u.s. veterans who come back from war often tell the same stories. were going after the people who were killing civilians they were not interested in the wellbeing of their own soldiers either there already is several generations of them so i just got this memo from the circulating branches off that says we're going to attack and destroy the government and seven countries in five years americans pay for the wars

with their money others with their lives if we were willing to go into harm's way and willing to risk being killed for a war then surely we can risk some discomfort or uneasiness for peace. seemed wrong. role just don't call. me world yet to shape out these days to come to advocate and engagement because the trail. went on many find themselves worlds apart. just of the for common ground.

hello and welcome to cross talk we're all things considered i'm peter what drives american foreign policy at its core is it really about furthering national interest is there an ideological foundation that is the driver we're told it's all about democracy or is it really all about power and the purposeful denial of agency of others on the international stage. cross talking american foreign policy i'm joined by my guest max blumenthal in washington he's the editor of gray zone dot com as well as author of the new book the management of savagery how america's national security state fueled the rise of al qaeda.